A quote from A Man Called Ove
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A quote from A Man Called Ove
This world seems to be indifferent to our fate. Even worse, we lack real control over our environment. Death can strike at any time and it is, in a very real sense, the only certainty that life offers us. Heidegger called our awareness of our own mortality ‘being-towards-death’.
Anthony Peake • A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
Although the physicality of death destroys man, the idea of death saves him.
Irvin D. Yalom • Existential Psychotherapy
“Ask someone how they feel about death,” he said, “and they’ll tell you everyone’s gonna die. Ask them, In the next 30 seconds? No, no, no, that’s not gonna happen. How about this afternoon? No. What you’re really asking them to admit is, Oh my God, I don’t really exist and I might be gone at any given second.”